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[Alexander Gall <>]

On Thu, 9 Feb 2023 08:58:50 +0100, Alexander Gall <> said:

> On Wed, 8 Feb 2023 17:15:04 +0000, Marcos Felipe Schwarz 
> <> said:
>> It seems to be working now.
>> It asked me for bf-sde-9.7.4.tgz, and after I added it, it's now compiling 
>> each pipeline during the update process.
>> Is this normal?

> No, this only happens if either the binary cache doesn't have the
> pre-built packages or the cache is not reachable. I suspect the former
> due to the disk-full condition yesterday. In that case, I guess not
> all packages could be copied to the binary cache from the build host.

That was indeed the case. I have updated the cache, so this problem
should be fixed. I also finally increased the disk space on the cache,
so it shouldn't happen again :)

--
Alex

> But the local build should have worked, at least. Just takes some time
> :)

> -- 
> Alex

>> Regards,

>> Marcos Schwarz

>> -----Mensagem original-----
>> De:  
>> <> Em nome de Alexander Gall
>> Enviada em: quarta-feira, 8 de fevereiro de 2023 10:57
>> Para: 
>> Cc: 
>> Assunto: Re: [RARE-users] RES: RES: [freertr] RES: Request to add BRIDGE 
>> to GEANT_TESTBED

>> Hi Marcos

>> On Wed, 8 Feb 2023 13:33:56 +0000, Marcos Felipe Schwarz 
>> <> said:

>>> I'm trying to update using tna-install-latest but I'm getting errors 
>>> downloading files from p4.cache.nix.net.switch.ch. Is this caused by a 
>>> temporary instability?

>> I guess this is due to the disk of the cache being full (once again, 
>> sigh). I need to increase the disk space on that VM :/

>> Please try again.

>> --
>> Alex

>>> Follows the output:

>>> SAO0021#tna-install-latest

>>> child 410426 created on 3

>>> child started

>>> INFO: Fetching origin/master from 
>>> https://bitbucket.software.geant.org/scm/rare/rare-nix.git

>>> Initialized empty Git repository in /tmp/tmp.pblXtOh3eA/.git/

>>> remote: Counting objects: 1553, done.

>>> remote: Compressing objects: 100% (1470/1470), done.

>>> remote: Total 1553 (delta 865), reused 0 (delta 0)        s

>>> Receiving objects: 100% (1553/1553), 31.05 MiB | 988.00 KiB/s, done.

>>> Resolving deltas: 100% (865/865), done.

>>> From https://bitbucket.software.geant.org/scm/rare/rare-nix

>>> * [new branch]      1              -> origin/1

>>> * [new branch]      CERN           -> origin/CERN

>>> * [new branch]      aps-9.9.0-beta -> origin/aps-9.9.0-beta

>>> * [new branch]      aps-9.9.1      -> origin/aps-9.9.1

>>> * [new branch]      hotfix/jordi-sde_9_5_0_hash_fix -> 
>>> origin/hotfix/jordi-sde_9_5_0_hash_fix

>>> * [new branch]      inventec       -> origin/inventec

>>> * [new branch]      master         -> origin/master

>>> * [new branch]      netberg        -> origin/netberg

>>> * [new branch]      netberg-9.9.0  -> origin/netberg-9.9.0

>>> * [new tag]         release-1      -> release-1

>>> HEAD is now at 4f7eaf9 bumping dataplane to 2023.02.08

>>> copying path 
>>> '/nix/store/ddpnvlix8kaj6hvw0hf2w4k8vcih7vs5-freerouter-jar-23.2.4' from 
>>> 'http://p4.cache.nix.net.switch.ch'...

>>> unable to download 
>>> 'http://p4.cache.nix.net.switch.ch/nar/ddpnvlix8kaj6hvw0hf2w4k8vcih7vs
>>> 5.nar': HTTP error 200 (curl error: Transferred a partial file)

>>> copying path '/nix/store/bd4wbf2pmnzky4mbcd0igi7ja1mahqdc-lcms2-2.13.1' 
>>> from 'http://p4.cache.nix.net.switch.ch'...

>>> cannot build derivation 
>>> '/nix/store/5y1pmxri9hnfz99nw7sp6pkjj1qrwrn3-freerouter-java-modules.d
>>> rv': 1 dependencies couldn't be built

>>> error: build of 
>>> '/nix/store/5y1pmxri9hnfz99nw7sp6pkjj1qrwrn3-freerouter-java-modules.d
>>> rv' failed

>>> (use '--show-trace' to show detailed location information)

>>> Unexpected error, aborting

>>> process exited with 256 code

>>> % returned 1

>>> Regards,

>>> Marcos Schwarz

>>> -----Mensagem original-----
>>> De:  
>>> <> Em nome de Alexander Gall Enviada 
>>> em: quarta-feira, 8 de fevereiro de 2023 10:11
>>> Para: 
>>> Cc: 
>>> Assunto: Re: [RARE-users] RES: [freertr] RES: Request to add BRIDGE to 
>>> GEANT_TESTBED

>>> Hi Marcos

>>> On Wed, 8 Feb 2023 12:36:13 +0000, Marcos Felipe Schwarz 
>>> <> said:

>>>> I'll be using this updated profile in my stordis_bf2556x_1t. I'm using 
>>>> the latest release which is based on SDE 9.7.2.

>>>> Will the updated profile be available for 9.7.2, or should I make some 
>>>> other update on my system?

>>> You will automatically move to 9.7.4 when you install the latest version 
>>> (with tna-install-latest or tna-install-experimental).

>>> Regards,

>>> Alex

>>>> Regards,

>>>> Marcos Schwarz

>>>> -----Mensagem original-----

>>>> De: 

>>>> <> Em nome de Alexander Gall 
>>>> Enviada

>>>> em: quarta-feira, 8 de fevereiro de 2023 06:34

>>>> Para: 

>>>> Cc: ; Marcos Felipe Schwarz <>

>>>> Assunto: Re: [RARE-users] [freertr] RES: Request to add BRIDGE to

>>>> GEANT_TESTBED

>>>> On Tue, 7 Feb 2023 18:25:23 +0100, mc36 <> said:

>>>>> hi,

>>>>> On 2/7/23 18:05,  wrote:

>>>>>> 

>>>>>>> my suspect is, that we updated the rare/profiles/*.p4, but not the 
>>>>>>> rare/profiles/9.7.4/*.p4 ?

>>>>>> 

>>>>>> Oh crap. There is a stupid bug in the rp.sh script. It stores the

>>>>>> optimized <profile>.p4 file in the 9.7.4/tofino directory only when

>>>>>> the optimization *failed* rather than the other way round. Duh! No

>>>>>> wonder the optimizer run didn't show any differences - it ignored

>>>>>> them.

>>>>>> 

>>>>>> I'll fix this and then re-run the optimizer (probably tomorrow,

>>>>>> sorry).

>>>>>> 

>>>> So, it finally worked :) The PR is ready (only modification is the 
>>>> #define HAVE_LOCONN, tble sizes did not change).

>>>> --

>>>> Alex
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